Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 50
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(p) Strengthening research, monitoring and evaluation systems, including by developing a community- and facility-based mechanism for the systematic notification of obstetric fistula cases and maternal and newborn deaths to ministries of health, and their recording in a national register, and by acknowledging obstetric fistula as a nationally notifiable condition, triggering immediate rep orting, tracking and follow-up for the purpose of guiding the development and implementation of maternal health programmes and ending fistula within a decade;